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Brussels – August 29, 2022: Emmanuel Plasschaert , partner and head of Crowell & Moring’s Corporate, Commercial, and Employment practices in Brussels, will become president (“bâtonnier”) of the Brussels Bar (FR) on September 1, 2022.
Fragomen professionals are volunteering at the Voyaach Helpdesk in Brussels, an initiative supporting asylum seekers and forcibly displaced persons in Belgium by providing them access to legal aid. The collaborative initiative provides legal information and access to immigration lawyers when individuals’ rights to basic services such as shelter are denied. The initiative was originally triggered…
Stepping up trade agreements enforcement: the European Commission published a pool of 133 individuals selected for appointment as arbitrators and/or trade and sustainable development (TSD) experts in bilateral disputes under trade agreements with third countries, such as EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) or agreements with African countries. The selected candidates come from very diverse backgrounds and include legal practitioners and academics from all over the world and across the EU.
Belgium and China celebrated 50 years of diplomatic relations in 2021. Belgium was one of the first Western countries to cooperate with China, and Belgian companies have been contributing to China's development in their own ways, helping it develop from being a largely agricultural society into the second-largest economy in the world, with a huge consumer market.
Three new experts have been appointed to the Belgian parliament's Congo Commission, to advise the government on how to deal with Belgium's colonial past.